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@transparent pics added Consumer unit Meter cupboard & EV charger CU Tesla gateway. Would the bidirectional RCBO go in here? Sorry for m...
@transparent many thanks once again for helpful inputs. The house was built 1997. TN-CS earthing. Of course an earth rod added as part of the Pow...
@andrewj if will be interesting to see if a phase change was considered. Presumably was as it must be much cheaper & easier than cable upgrade! Bu...
@andrewj fwiw if you look at my other thread you can see my spreadsheet for voltages. That is based on my GivEnergy inverter. It gives a reading for...
@fleecy yes mine is 2023 .. Trophy... via business... 4 year contract. I will definitely stay EV. But guess I may need to look at BYD for one option...
@fleecy i too have a MG4! I only have standard single phase to the house. But as 3 phase is available at the pole the DNO (SSE Networks in my case)...
@transparent I have sent my latest spreadsheet with historic winter data to SSEN. May have entered a black hole!! Feel free to share with your conta...
@fleecy, tbh i also knew little as at a couple of months ago. So if you read this entire thread, you'll see my journey and helpful inputs by other mem...
I have updated the overvoltage thread mentioned by @old_scientist to add further information on undervoltage
I have updated my spreadsheet to show peak winter periods for potential undervoltage. No undervoltage events noted. So in theory might be capacity t...
@fleecy yes, tapping down is an option but not automatically the solution. We can see during the summer we're hitting overvoltage 253v while staying...
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